{"id":2406,"date":"2015-11-16T11:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T19:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/?p=2406"},"modified":"2020-12-10T13:44:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T21:44:45","slug":"magoosh-comics-commonly-confused-verbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/magoosh-comics-commonly-confused-verbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Magoosh Comics: Commonly Confused Verbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was just reading Rachel KD\u2019s post on verbs that are often confused with other similar-sounding words. It\u2019s a great post for building English fluency, so be sure to check it out <a href=\"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/tricky-english-grammar-commonly-confused-verbs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Toward the end of her post, Rachel talked about the importance of using mnemonics to remember the differences between similar-sounding words.\u00a0 In this post, I\u2019ve made cartoon mnemonics for the five word pairs that Rachel featured in her post: <em>allowed\/aloud, fined\/find, filled\/filed, passed\/past, <\/em>and <em>read\/red<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As an added bonus, I\u2019ve also drawn a cartoon to help you remember the differences between the verb <em>filled<\/em> and the noun <em>field<\/em>. Many non-native speakers of English would pronounce both words in the exact same way.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2408 size-large aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/magoosh-company-site\/wp-content\/uploads\/toefl\/files\/2015\/10\/21062728\/mc-ccv_img2-600x546.gif\" alt=\"mc-ccv_img2\" width=\"600\" height=\"546\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2409 size-large aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/magoosh-company-site\/wp-content\/uploads\/toefl\/files\/2015\/10\/21062736\/mc-ccv_img3-600x553.gif\" alt=\"mc-ccv_img3\" width=\"600\" height=\"553\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2410 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/magoosh-company-site\/wp-content\/uploads\/toefl\/files\/2015\/10\/21062744\/mc-ccv_img4-600x545.gif\" alt=\"mc-ccv_img4\" width=\"600\" height=\"545\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2411 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/magoosh-company-site\/wp-content\/uploads\/toefl\/files\/2015\/10\/21062751\/mc-ccv_img5-600x584.gif\" alt=\"mc-ccv_img5\" width=\"600\" height=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2412 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/magoosh-company-site\/wp-content\/uploads\/toefl\/files\/2015\/10\/21062758\/mc-ccv_img6-600x568.gif\" alt=\"mc-ccv_img6\" width=\"600\" height=\"568\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just reading Rachel KD\u2019s post on verbs that are often confused with other similar-sounding words. It\u2019s a great post for building English fluency, so be sure to check it out here. Toward the end of her post, Rachel talked about the importance of using mnemonics to remember the differences between similar-sounding words.\u00a0 In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13604],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[13630],"class_list":["post-2406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocab"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.7 (Yoast SEO v21.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Magoosh Comics: Commonly Confused Verbs - Magoosh Blog \u2013 TOEFL\u00ae\ufe0f Test<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/magoosh-comics-commonly-confused-verbs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Magoosh Comics: Commonly Confused Verbs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I was just reading Rachel KD\u2019s post on verbs that are often confused with other similar-sounding words. 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